Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-30

missioners to settle the Montenegrin
boundary. Now he was in high favor
at the palace, but hitherto he had had
no influence whatever with the Com
mander of the Faithful, who presently
conferred upon him the high priv
lege of marrying one OF His Ma)esty,.s 9
cousins, who remains Moukhtar's $
only wife, and has two charming chill
| dren, girl and boy, the latter being
now entered at the Berlin Military
School. He became member OF the
! Council of War, with the rank oil
NJ iior- General, and very soon after
| ward went to command brigade un-
der Redif Pasha in suppressing Tor
| midable Arab rebellion in Yemen.
Redif made little headway and re-
tired from the field under the plea OF
illness, leaving Moukhtar the conduct
of operations. He soon finished the
campaign, taking by assault the city
of Yedez. For this feat he became II
General of Division. The Governor
of Temen became recalled to take
high office in Constantinople, Mou-
khtar succeeded him with the full
grade OF Mushir, being only just turned
% years of age. He justified his pro-
motion by storming the city of Sana
and putting an end to the rebellion in
South Arabia. Since then he has
been Minister of Public Works, Gov
ernor of Crete, where he was popu-
lar even with the Greeks; in COM
mand of the Shumla Army Corps,
where he made the notifications which
the Russians did not think it well
later on to attack in command OF the
Erzeroum Corps. in command OF Boz
snia and Herzegovina in the last Mon
tenegrin campaign, where it is said he
won twenty fights and was only bea-
ten once; again Governor of Crete
nominally, but before he could go
there he was sent to Erzeroum to
make scramble against the Russians
whom he mannuvred back to their
own frontier, being ultimately beaten
for want of men and money. After
the Armenian campaign he was
charged with the defence of Constan-
tinople against the Russian advance.
and has been head Of the Council of
War. When the last Cretan rebellion
broke out he went to Gambia as Gov
ernor, and made working arrange
:nent which gave every satisfaction
that could be given to the Hellenic
part, short OF the cession OF the is
land. Indeed, he wens 50 + r in ac-
cording sell-government-to 10 Crete that
his mortal enemy, O8man Pasha, OF
Plevna, who is very jealous of him,
had little difficulty in persuading the
Sultan that it would not be safe to
leave him there. So he returned to
Constahtinople. In 1885 he was
warned that ii the Greek and Bulgar-
ian movement came to anything like
fighting he would be placed in su-
preme command on both frontiers,
and have the Mushirs commanding
corps as his lieutenants, but he did
not believe the plan would work, and
before he had a chance OF being called
upon he WAS sent as the Sultan's High
Commissioner to Egypt, where he
has been now for twenty-three months,
working zealously against the supre-
macy of England, though he looks up
on Great Britain as the only sincere
friend OF Turkey. To-day, at the age
of SO, he is the most prominent sub
iect in the Ottoman Empire. A thor
oughly old-fashioned Turk, he is very
religious and at the same time very
liberal, being decided believer in
representative institutions to be intro
duced by degrees and built up OH the
democratic system of village govern
ment, which still exists, though prac-
tically wiped out by Capitalization,
and which, springing from the same
origin, is analogous to that of the Rus-
sian Mir. Himself an author of a
work on astronomy and another long
completed but not yet published, he
is especially kind to the representa-
tives of the press, and has been CEN
sured for it on more than one occasion.
Indeed, he is far too liberal for the
palace party, and therefore is employ
ment found for him whenever possible
at distance from the Sultan. who is
inclined to trust much to his advise
as that of ore distinguished Turk of
this generation about whom scandal
has never ventured to say a word.
Moukhtar Pasha is in every sense OF
the word an honest man, and, consid-
ering his rapid rise, he is poor man,
having no possessions but one house
in Constantinople and one with few
acres Of g arden and vines, three miles
from Scutari on the Asiatic side. In
the best sense OF the word he is self
made, and he is typical representa-
tive of how rapid rise in Turkey is
possible in combination with honesty
and self-respect. 1t is one OF his ia
vorite sayings that he is ''no politi-
cian," and il is rather curious that
the same phrase is constantly in the
mouth Of Gen. Lord Wolseley, whose
career bears certain similarity TO his
own, but of whom he has the advant-
age by nearly four years. They have
both had "luck," but in both cases, it
is we'll to note, they had no special
advantages to start with, and the luck
would not have carried them far with
out good deal OF merit behind it.